‘Tis the Season for the Wayward Package Phish
November 4 2021The holiday shopping season always means big business for phishers, who tend to find increased success this time of year with a time-honored lure about a wayward package that...
Read moreThe ‘Groove’ Ransomware Gang Was a Hoax
November 2 2021A number of publications in September warned about the emergence of "Groove," a new ransomware group that called on competing extortion gangs to unite in attacking U.S. government interests...
Read moreThe ‘Groove’ Ransomware Gang Was a Hoax
November 2 2021A number of publications in September warned about the emergence of "Groove," a new ransomware group that called on competing extortion gangs to unite in attacking U.S. government interests...
Read moreZales.com Leaked Customer Data, Just Like Sister Firms Jared, Kay Jewelers Did in 2018
October 28 2021In December 2018, bling vendor Signet Jewelers fixed a weakness in their Kay Jewelers and Jared websites that exposed the order information for all of their online customers. This...
Read moreFBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant PAX Technology
October 26 2021U.S. federal investigators today raided the U.S. offices of PAX Technology, a Chinese provider of point-of-sale devices used by millions of businesses and retailers globally. KrebsOnSecurity has learned the...
Read moreMissouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting Security Vulnerability
October 14 2021On Wednesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state education website that exposed the Social...
Read moreHow Coinbase Phishers Steal One-Time Passwords
October 13 2021A recent phishing campaign targeting Coinbase users shows thieves are getting cleverer about phishing one-time passwords (OTPs) needed to complete the login process. It also shows that phishers are...
Read moreWhat Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp?
October 4 2021Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We don't yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning,...
Read moreFCC Proposal Targets SIM Swapping, Port-Out Fraud
October 1 2021The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking for feedback on new proposed rules to crack down on SIM swapping and number port-out fraud, increasingly prevalent scams in which...
Read moreIndictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story
September 23 2021In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world's most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used...
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